Hi; Just a few notes to anyone who may be looking for recommendations.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:21 AM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am also not trying to start any kind of distro war! Noted. > > I switched from Fedora for business use because I got right tired of > having to update every six months (or so). Upgrading sometimes left me > with issues (I am a serious user NOT a hacker so I still am not very > proficient at troubleshooting) that cost me a lot of time and > sometimes expense. So I made a decision to switch to Debian because I > liked the idea of longer term upgrade cycle. I would like to stay on > such for precisely that one reason - - I do not like to change systems > twice a year. First, as a Fedora user let me say that without a doubt it is a very lousy server OS. I would not recommend running business servers on it. I develop on it because it gives me early warnings for the kinds of issues that may pop up with the RHEL-family of distros. So I do run LedgerSMB on it in an eat-your-own-dogfood sort of way, so my failure to follow my own advice here is rather deliberate. For non-dev installations of LedgerSMB, in my opinion, you really need a distro with long-term support. This means one of: 1) RHEL and friends (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc) 2) Debian Stable 3) Ubuntu LTS (and friends, like Mint LTS) 4) Anything else with a long support cycle. The problems that Darald brings up are real ones. There may be advantages for us devs ignoring these and working on short-term support releases ourselves. However I would not today use these in setting up servers for customers. Debian is not a bad distro, and neither is Scientific Linux. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
